Axiope tools for data management and data sharing
Axiope tools for data management and data sharing
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DOI：
10.1385/ni:1:3:271
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
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3
通讯作者：
Howell, FW
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作者：
Goddard, NH;Cannon, RC;Howell, FW
生物学研究的许多领域产生大量非常多样化的数据。管理这些数据可能是一个困难和耗时的过程，特别是在学术环境中，IT支持人员（如数据库管理员）的资源非常有限。最经济、最高效的解决方案是那些能够让拥有最少IT专业知识的科学家控制和操作自己的桌面系统的解决方案。Axiope提供了一个这样的解决方案，催化剂，它作为灵活的编目系统创建结构化记录描述数字资源。用户能够指定目录中包含的信息的内容和结构。信息和资源可以通过多种方式共享，包括自动生成的网页集。在需要时，这些信息的联合和集成由Axiope的Mercat服务器处理。如果需要标准化或不同研究人员使用的结构的兼容性，这可以通过在Mercat中应用用户定义的映射来实现。通过这种方式，可以实现大规模的数据共享，而不会施加不必要的限制或干扰个别科学家选择记录和分类其工作的方式。我们总结了科学数据管理和数据共享中涉及的关键技术问题，描述了Axiope Catalyzer和Axiope Mercat的主要特性和功能，并讨论了支持大规模数据共享和科学合作的信息基础设施的未来方向和要求。
Many areas of biological research generate large volumes of very diverse data. Managing this data can be a difficult and time-consuming process, particularly in an academic environment where there are very limited resources for IT support staff such as database administrators. The most economical and efficient solutions are those that enable scientists with minimal IT expertise to control and operate their own desktop systems. Axiope provides one such solution, Catalyzer, which acts as flexible cataloging system for creating structured records describing digital resources. The user is able specify both the content and structure of the information included in the catalog. Information and resources can be shared by a variety of means, including automatically generated sets of web pages. Federation and integration of this information, where needed, is handled by Axiope's Mercat server. Where there is a need for standardization or compatibility of the structures used by different researchers this can be achieved later by applying user-defined mappings in Mercat. In this way, large-scale data sharing can be achieved without imposing unnecessary constraints or interfering with the way in which individual scientists choose to record and catalog their work. We summarize the key technical issues involved in scientific data management and data sharing, describe the main features and functionality of Axiope Catalyzer and Axiope Mercat, and discuss future directions and requirements for an information infrastructure to support large-scale data sharing and scientific collaboration.